App Store for Pebble Smartwatch to Launch Early Next Year

Pebble smartwatch, the runaway Kickstarter success, just keeps getting better. The Pebble team announced today their intentions to launch an official app store, which should allay worry among users that third-party hosts would become the only place to obtain applications.

The store will include downloadable watchfaces, of course, and will organize apps by 6 categories: Daily, Remotes, Sports & Fitness, Notifications, Tools & Utilities, and Games. Each category page will feature an editorial selection of high-quality and new apps, and app pages will contain rich details like screenshots and links to companion smartphone applications.

The app store will launch simultaneously with Pebble SDK 2.0 early next year. Submitting an application is free for developers (check the source link for instructions on how to do so).

Not very user-friendly as you have to go find apps and apps to manage those apps yourselves, hence the importance of the unified app store.

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If we only complained as much as those on iOS then maybe it’d already be on Android haha.

ERIFNOMI

It’s an appstore for the watch. What do you want, each watchface or watch app to have a companion app that’s released through the Play Store and iOS App Store that then sits on your phone doing nothing after being pushed to the watch?

Except this isn’t Android. It’s a watch, with its own hardware and OS. The fact that it works WITH your Android device doesn’t make it an Android device. It also works with iOS, and will probably work with Windows Phone at some point.